2025 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Waste Plastic - Recycle, Reuse and Remediation Strategies

Waste Plastic - Recycle, Reuse and Remediation Strategies

Chair

Jeffrey Seay, University of Kentucky

Co-Chairs

Amy E. Landis, COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES
Robert Peters, UNIV OF ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM
Aurora Del Carmen Munguia Lopez, UNIVERSIDAD MICHOACANA DE SAN NICOLAS DE HIDALGO

Presentations

08:00 AM

(270a) AI Methods for Improved Polymer Sorting
Bradley Olsen, Alexis Hocken

08:18 AM

(270b) Plastic Waste As a Carbon Resource: Bioconversion of Polyethylene after Thermal Oxo-Degradation
Efrain Rodriguez-Ocasio, Laura R. Jarboe, Kimia Noroozi, Jessica Brown, Mark Blenner, Robert Brown

08:36 AM

(270c) Polyolefin Dissolution Fundamentals and Applications in Dissolution/Precipitation Separation of Polyolefins Via Cycling of Switchable Solvents
Ali Ghasemi, Shikha Solanki, Paschalis Alexandridis, Marina Tsianou

08:54 AM

(270d) Catalytic Hydrogenolysis of Polyolefin Waste Plastics Using Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers
Emmanuel Dada

09:12 AM

(270e) Material Flow Assessment of Plastic Additives: Influence of Polymer Type, Application, and Consumer Behavior at End-of-Life
Monica Rodriguez Morris, Andres Castellar-Freile, John D. Chea, Jose Hernandez-Betancur, Kirti Yenkie, Gerardo Ruiz-Mercado

09:30 AM

(270f) High-Throughput and Pan-Genomic Approach to Multi-Species Polymer Biodegradation
Alex Zappi, Katharina Fransen, Yoseb Song, Julia Casey, Jennifer Maldonado, Gabrielle Godbille-Cardona, Natalie Mamrol, Bradley Olsen, Kristala L. J. Prather

09:48 AM

(270g) Industrial Perspective of New Value Chains from C-C Backboned Plastic Wastes
Zheng Guo

10:06 AM

(270h) Recycled Poly(ethylene terephthalate) / Poly(ethylene terephthalate glycol-modified) Composite Filament for Sustainable Material Extrusion Additive Manufacturing
Ahmad Nafees, Syed Ahamed, Ali Elkamel, Ali Almansoori